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Theatre, in some respects, resembles a market. Stories, rituals, ideas, perceptive modes, conversations, rules, techniques, behavior patterns, actions, language, and objects constantly circulate back and forth between theatre and the other cultural institutions that make up everyday life in the twentieth century. These exchanges, which challenge the established concept of theatre in a way that demands to be understood, form the core of Erika Fischer-Lichte's dynamic book.

Each eclectic essay investigates the boundaries that separate theatre from other cultural domains. Every encounter between theatre and other art forms and institutions renegotiates and redefines these boundaries as part of an ongoing process. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating examples, both historical and contemporary, Fischer-Lichte reveals new perspectives in theatre research from quite a number of different approaches. Energetically and excitingly, she theorizes history, theorizes and historicizes performance analysis, and historicizes theory.

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“Erika Fischer-Lichte, whose Semiotics of the Theatre is a key work in that field, has produced in The Show and the Gaze of Theatre another wide-ranging and admirably comprehensive guide, this one to the emerging fields of intercultural theatre, performance, and current trends in theatre historiography and theory. I warmly recommend the book to all readers interested in the most current thought in these fields.”—Marvin Carlson, Graduate Center, City University of New York

“In this book Germany's—and probably Europe's—leading theorist and historian of theatre gives a wonderfully clear and truly exciting account of what is cutting edge in her discipline. Erika Fischer-Lichte's book can be read as a practical introduction to theatre studies, as a history of theatre studies as an academic discipline, and as an individual and highly actualized vision of this field with which colleagues and students will argue but which everyone in the field and interested readers outside the field will gratefully acknowledge. This book has all the ingredients of a future classic on this discipline if not of the humanities as a whole.”—Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University

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